DEMOCRATS WORRY: If impeachment fails, they’ll have to nominate an electable candidate.

"The real danger here," said Nancy Pelosi in a meeting of top Democrats, "is that the normal way of getting rid of a president---impeachment---fails. Then, we'd have to try to find someone who isn't a smug, smarmy doofus and get the public to like them."

That's why impeachment is so urgent; only smug, smarmy doofuses [doofi? - Ed.] are running.

SHOE comments on Election 2020.

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY. And stupid.

DON'T WRAP YOUR FISH IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. It will contaminate the fish.

FALLING LEAVES, EPISODE III: This week I start with the pond again, this time finally showing some color - after most of the leaves have already fallen.

The accumulation of leaves on the ground is already spectacular for this early in the season.

This picture is toward the house from down along the road at the the edge of our property. In the foreground are some of the leaves that have turned but not yet fallen. The Gator is sitting in front of a large pile of fallen tree branches that are slowly being chipped up for next spring's garden mulch.

Last week's pictures are here.

DON'T BE A LITTLE PEOPLE. Rules are for little people.

KURT SCHLICHTER calls out Beto O'Rourke.

I HAVE TWO FAVORITES from this week's edition of PowerLine's Week in Pictures:

and

Now go see the rest.

IF IT'S GOOD NEWS, it's not news.

Related: Journalists give us a distorted view of reality.

TUCKER CARLSON UNDERSTANDS: "Kamala Harris embodies everything that is grating and unlikable about neoliberals -- mindless children of privilege who sneer at those below them for not obeying."

Harris for President? Snowballs have a better chance in Hell.

“THESE ARE NOT NORMAL TIMES.”

“There is (for now) no longer a Democratic Party. Instead, it is a revolutionary Jacobin movement that believes socialism is our salvation, that identity politics is our creed, that gun confiscation is our duty, that the abrupt end of fossil fuels is coming very soon, that open borders is our new demography, and that the archetypical unmarried, childless, urban hipster is our model woke citizen.”

Yes, let's ban those damn deplorables.

HEH: Elizabeth Warren admits to wearing paleface at college costume party.

Yes, Snopes, it's satire.

I'VE SAID UNKIND THINGS ABOUT COREY LEWANDOWSKI; I take them back.

BY EMBRACING MAGICAL THINKING, Democrats remind us they would rather punish society than confront criminals.

This particular post is about gun control, but it's illustrative of the liberal philosophy about nearly everything: punish the innocent to protect (avoid stigmatizing) the guilty.

DONALD TRUMP is fighting a culture civil war. And winning.

NOW THAT 'STORM AREA 51' has mercifully passed on, here is an interesting series of posts on that part of the Nevada desert. The first 5 or 6 links are a relatively accurate history of Area 51; the rest are mostly devoted to the various conspiracy theories surrounding the base.

AMMO GRRRLL EXPLAINS: Free Range Penis 2.0.

Dang. I spent most of 1962 through 1978 in/around various colleges, and I missed it all....

THE BABYLON BEE explains common racist hand signals.

So the University of Texas (Longhorns) are racists....

POWERLINE: Democrats play dumb.

They're not playing dumb; they are dumb.

FALLING LEAVES, EPISODE II: As I noted last week, I'll start with the downslope view of our pond, since it usually comes more and more visible as the leaves continue to fall, but I won't necessarily take the picture from the same location on our deck. Here's the pond view, taken this week from the walk down to the fire pit.

We've had a big pine tree fall during a thunderstorm, so the pond view from this vantage point is a little more open than it has in the past. (Big trees take out lots of little trees as they fall; I've still got more clean-up to do).

This next picture is my 'pit stop' picture, taken looking back toward the house and the next ridge over. The land on that side is very steep, almost impassable, and so is heavily overgrown. As winter approaches, the view will mostly just turn brownish - the foliage is so dense the next ridge is almost never visible.

My final picture this week is from along the road leading to the house; the red is the 'early bird' this year - our clear sign that Fall is coming.

Last week's pictures from around the neighborhood are here.